Worthless updates

[Alexander Kurtakov]

> On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 03/03/2010 09:03 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 21:07 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >>> Ok... removing deprecated uses is a questionable at best update, but
> >>> here is the kicker.  The perl in F11 is perl-5.10.0-82.fc11.  So these
> >>> functions aren't actually deprecated in F11.  So... why is this update
> >>> going out?  What possible benefit does the user get from this?  Does
> >>> anybody see this as a reasonable update to publish on F11?
> > 
> > My own personal opinion is that stable updates should only fix serious
> > issues, or security problems. Fedora has such a short lifetime as it is,
> > I really can't see the value in pushing features to F11 when it will die
> > soon. I think it's far better to leave the churn in rawhide.
> 
> Let F11 rott because it's EOL soon?
> 
> Pardon, but you can't be serious about this.
> 
> At least I am trying to provide all released Fedoras with same amount of
> attention.
> 
> Anybody still wonders about Fedora's poor shape and it's reputation?

Hmm, I would not say that Fedora is in poor shape :). When we speak about 
reputation believe me it's way worse if an update breaks smth on my sister's 
computer than me having to fix smth during installation and verifying it works 
before giving her the computer. And break does not only mean what we accept as 
a break, e.g.  a simple fonts hinting change will be considered a break if 
this causes some of her documents to look in a different way. We are not 
speaking for tech savy users only and change for this type of users means you 
have to take care of "This update broke my homework formatting" or "Where is 
that blue icon for usb devices now?" and etc.

Alexander Kurtakov
 

> 
> Ralf